Confusion in the accelerated dragon

I have noticed in games on live chess people are confused whenever i play the accelerated dragon. once they spot the move g6 they start going for a f3 qd2 with a long castle type of set up, which many of you may know is the wrong idea. here is the main lines to the accelerated

as you can see the purpose of the move bc4 is to stop the key break in the accelerated dragon with d5. In the normal dragon this move is less likely due to the fact it usually started with 1.e4 c5 2. nf3 d6 the pawn has already commited to d6 therefor would take more time to advance up to d5, which is another big difference in the 2 lines. The next diagram will be a puzzle, see if you can see how to exploit it if white handles this like a normal dragon set up.

Now, you may be thinking if white avoids this simple f3 set up in the beggining like you would in the normal dragon, he will be fine, but if he makes this f3 move again in the future there is still a few more tricks and traps in store for him if he ignores black's moves, here's another puzzle with the move qa5 after bc4 which is considered the more positional move.

Now after this puzzle i will show you how white keeps the pawn after f3, but still suffers im sorry if i puzzle overloading you, but i tried not to make them too difficult.

Now after this we will look at the move 0-0 after bc4 which is considered to be more sharp. again i would like to say it's hard for white to play waiting moves, or slowly because of the d5 break that black has. here's another trick black has if white ignores his moves after 0-0.

bb3 is most likely the right move to play and not 0-0. i should also say that the threat of ng4 is always still alive if white tries going for a longside castle again with the move qd2. aswell as qb6 if he tries playing f3 again.

Now after Bb3 black should play D5, then it is acceptable to play f3 for white because black threatens ng4 there. After this qd2 and the a long castle would make sense.

This is the end of the post but this is a lot less information than given in the videos mentioned above, so if interested you can learn further there.

Very nice post, i learned alot about the acclerated dragon, Might play it in my OTB tourney in a couple weeks!

Nice post!  The Acc. Dragon is my preferred defense to e4, though of course that doesn't mean I'm any good with it. ;)

well i hope this may have improved you a little bit with it :D if any posters have questions im glad to answer.

might give this a go

The original dragon is sketchy, however the accelerated dragon is 100% different and in no means refuted, much less even sketchy.